«Good luck and G-d bless, Wisconsin. You are going to need it,» Judge Ilana Rover wrote in dissent.
The majority judges, Frank Easterbrook, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and Amy St. Eve, appointed by President Donald Trump, granted the stay, saying the lower court should not have made changes to election laws and regulations close to election day so as not to cause voter confusion. «The State Legislature offers two principal arguments in support of a stay: first, that a federal court should not change the rules so close to an election; second, that political rather than judicial officials are entitled to decide when a pandemic justifies changes to rules that are otherwise valid.
